He reformed Austria's armies to adopt the nation at arms principle ; in 1809, he went into the War of the Fifth Coalition with confidence and inflicted Napoleon's first major setback at Aspern-Essling, before suffering a defeat at the bloody Battle of Wagram.

It is notable that Sweden reached the final four having won only one match ( as a result of Austria's withdrawal from the first round ): the only time this has happened in a World Cup.

Austria's first attempt at republican governance, after the fall of the monarchy, was severely hampered by the crippling economic costs of war reparations required by the victorious Allies.

Liane Haid ( 16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000 ) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.

Moreover, the nation was still haunted by the specter of the ideological factionalism which had characterized Austria's first republic ( cf.

He witnessed first hand the awards ceremonies for England's Order of the Garter and Austria's Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awardees.

It proved popular, and came to serve unofficially as Austria's first national anthem.

After having asserted themselves in the alternative scene inside and outside Austria's borders with their first two records " amaurose pur.

Austria's newspaper stamps first appeared in 1851 ; they depicted a profile of Mercury, the Roman messenger god, and were not denominated, the color of the stamp indicating the value.

In addition to them Austria recruited Chinese international Sun Xiang, who became the first Chinese to play in Austria's Bundesliga.

The city has two airfields ( a military one which was the first airfield in Austria and a civil one owned by Diamond Aircraft ) and is the starting point of Austria's only shipping canal, the Wiener Neustaedter Kanal, which was meant to reach out to Trieste but was never finished.

Austria's first and largest Fachhochschule for business and engineering, the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, is located here.

He then went on to score the winning goal against West Germany in a game dubbed The miracle of Córdoba, which the Austrians won 3 – 2 and which was Austria's first win against West Germany for 47 years, earning Krankl legendary status in his homeland.

He was married from 1955 to Franziska Kalmar, Austria's first television presenter.

The team was involved in a failed attempt in the 1924 – 25 season to play Austria's first night game on a field lit by torches and flares, and playing with a ball covered in lime to make it more visible.

: Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first.

The Nordbahn, or Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, was Austria's first steam railway company and financed by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild ( 1774-1855 ).

The cable car was opened in 1965, and opened up the Schmiedingerkees and Maurerkees glaciers, making it Austria's first glacier ski slope.

In October 2009 mayor Gerhard Skiba argued for the first time in support of a ' House of Peace ' or ' House of Responsibility ' in Hitler's Birthhouse in Austria's Newspaper Kurier.

* Austria's Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class ( 2008 )

Sun's first solo album effort, the 1992 " Dixie and Me ", on Austria's Crazy Music made its debut.

He is most well known as the winner of the sixth series of the popular Late Night Poker television series during his time living in the United Kingdom, where he defeated Austria's Jin Cai Lin in the final heads-up encounter to take the £ 60, 000 first prize.

In the latter tournament, he scored Austria's first goal in the 2 – 2 draw with Northern Ireland in Madrid.

It used a 73 metre high lattice tower and broadcast Austria's first radio station on 99. 0MHz and third radio station on 94. 8 MHz, each with 50 kW, as well as a TV station on channel 8 with 60 / 12 kW ( picture / sound ).

It may be thus seen as the beginning of Austrian history, and in 1919 there was the concrete idea aired by Heinrich Lammasch, who had been Imperial Austria's last prime minister, to give the young republic the name of " Norische Republik " or " Noric Republic ", because the ancient borders were similar to those of the new state which, at that time, did not wish to be considered the heir of the Habsburg monarchy but an independent, neutral and peaceful state.

Austrian champions ( in German: Österreichischer Meister ) is the general name for a champion in a team or singles competition Austria's elite national sport ( bundesliga ) competitions, and is thus comparable with the title of German champions.

Serbia, whose aspirations in the direction of Austrian-held Bosnia were no secret, was considered an enemy and the main tool of Russian machinations that were behind the agitation of Austria's Slav subjects.

Karl Wittgenstein ( 1847 – 1913 ) became an industrial tycoon, and by the late 1880s was one of the richest men in Europe, with an effective monopoly on Austria's steel cartel.

At the Congress of Vienna, Austria's representative, Prince von Metternich, felt the threat to this status quo in Austria was the nationalists demanding independence from the empire.

On 20 February 2006, Irving was found guilty, and sentenced to three years imprisonment for Holocaust denial, under Austria's 1947 law banning Nazi revivalism and criminalising the " public denial, belittling or justification of National Socialist crimes ".

In 2012, Ono was the winner of the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.

In May 1931 there was a run on Austria's largest commercial bank, and the bank failed.

Queen Elizabeth was in fact better connected to mighty German rulers than her husband: a descendant of earlier kings, for example Emperor Henry IV, she was also a niece of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria, Austria's important neighbor.

Although Albert himself only reigned for a year, from then on, every emperor was a Habsburg, with only one exception, and Austria's rulers wee also the Holy Roman Emperors, till 1806.

The purpose of these marriages was to cement the various complex alliances that Maria Theresa had entered into in the 1750s due to the Seven Years ' War, which included Parma, Naples, Russia, and more importantly Austria's traditional enemy, France.

Frederick Augustus was mistrustful of Prussia in view of the experiences of the spring and arguably disappointed as well by Austria's decision not to join the Coalition immediately, especially while the country was exposed as before to French domination.

At the BIE's May 5, 1960 meeting in Paris, Moscow was awarded the fair after five rounds of voting that eliminated Austria's and then Canada's bids.

The major postwar far right party was the Austrian National Democratic Party ( NDP ), until it was banned in 1988 for violating Austria's anti-Nazi legislation, Verbotsgesetz 1947.

Haider, who in 2005 left the Freedom Party and formed the Alliance for Austria's Future, was killed in a traffic accident in October, 2008.

Latvia was the runner-up in Austria's qualification group, but was not invited to participate ; instead Austria's place remained empty, and Sweden, which would have been Austria's initial opponent, progressed directly to the second-round by default.

However, following Austria's revised interpretation of its obligations under the treaty, a decision was made in 1993 to procure AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.